Celyn / Kew Gardens

Celyn worked with Kew Gardens again on their £10.5m Grow Wild Scheme to bring people and communities together to sow, grow and support UK native wild flowers. The Grow Wild Scheme encourages people to get together to transform unloved urban sites into wildlife-friendly wild flower patches.

For the second phase of the campaign, Kew Gardens and The Big Lottery Fund are looking for people to nominate a project in their community aimed at transforming an unloved or neglected site, particularly in urban areas, to receive funding from Grow Wild. They are going to create four inspirational Grow Wild sites one each in England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland. The winning site will receive £120,000 to create an inspiring green space using UK native plants.

Celyn is represented by Debut Art

Building Economies

Making business look beautiful, Gail Armstrong creates this paper sculpture for PM Network magazine.

Commissioned by Hugo Espinozo, senior art director at Imagination, the image is in the February issue of the monthly publication for the Project Management Institute (PMI). Gail's creation illustrates "6 Markets to Watch: Look for the next wave of project opportunity in one of these 6 climbing economies”. She says: "It discusses the business potential in these building economies and the many ways in which those countries are changing, developing and investing in themselves." Gail chose to focus on Nigeria - oil/energy industry, Panama - canal expansion, Indonesia - infrastructure through telecommunications, Chile - building infrastructure through information technology, Turkey – construction; in particular transport links and Vietnam - factory construction. After submitting several ideas to illustrate the article, the concept of using flowers to represent the growth of these 6 different countries was selected. Gail says "The flower heads have petals made from maps of the relevant countries. By choosing to use a fairly simple, non-specific flower shape and by carefully placing the petals, it is still possible to read the map and the country name. The flower centres and stamens, which echo the map colours, represent the country’s relevant investment area."

Oscar Wilson for Lush Cosmetics

Oscar Wilson designed this amazing typographic image for Lush Cosmetics constructed of multilingual words for ‘thank you’. Oscar’s design will be sold as a gift knot wrap and also used across Lush stores in window displays and on carrier bags. Keep an eye out for it from March 2014.
http://www.debutart.com/illustration/oscar-wilson#/illustration

Kate Forrester’s cover for Macmillan

Kate Forrester was asked by Macmillan to create this beautiful cover for ‘Poems from the First World War’, “…a moving collection of poems written by people who experienced the war first hand”. You can buy the book here.

Kate Forrester is represented by the Artworks

Grow Wild

Celyn has been busy over the past few months working with Kew Gardens on their Grow Wild Scheme. Celyn was commissioned to create a wide range of illustrations to accompany the campaign.

The Grow Wild Scheme is an exciting four year campaign to bring people together to sow UK native wild flowers. The purpose of the scheme is to transform where we live; bringing colour and surprise to our streets and turning gardens and windowsills into wildlife-friendly wild flower patches.

Grow Wild is funded by a £10.5 million pound grant from the Big Lottery Fund and led by the Royal Botanic Gardens. From spring 2014, Grow Wild will: distribute one million seed-sowing kits across the UK; create four flagship sites – one each in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland and create 160 smaller community engagement sites across the country.

To find out more about the scheme and see more of Celyn’s illustrations visit the website - http://www.growwilduk.com/

Celyn is represented by Debut Art

Lindsey Spinks for the FT

Lindsey Spinks created this colourful illustration for the Financial Times to celebrate 100 years of the Chelsea flower show and Robin Lane Fox's Demi centenary of visiting the show. The gnome represents the first year of being allowed back in the show and the women are reference to when they were thrown out in the 50s as they were classed as livestock!

Lindey Spinks is represented by the Artworks

“Tricked You” tales

We are proud to show you the latest from Javier Joaquin, who has completed characterful illustrations for Pearson's Bug Club 'Tricked You' tales, featuring stories from around the World. We just love Javier's new style with its vibrant colour and bold mark making, which complimented the stories perfectly, bring them to life with a bang! This new approach in Javier's art has already started turning heads, gaining him a whole new legion of fans, so check out his contemporary work today!

Javier Joaquin is represented by the Organisation

Adrian Valencia

Adrian Valencia was commissioned to illustrate the cover of The Heart Whisperer by Ella Griffin, which is out now, published by Orion. Adrian Valencia is represented by Eastwing